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Certificates

Backup of Certificate Authority fails with “Keyset does not exist 0x80090016 (-2146893802 NTE_BAD_KEYSET)”

May 11, 2023May 16, 2023Vince

Trying to migrate off Server 2012 R2 before the deadline? First time running a backup of your CA and suddenly you realize you can’t? Me too! The first error you…Continue readingBackup of Certificate Authority fails with “Keyset does not exist 0x80090016 (-2146893802 NTE_BAD_KEYSET)”

Azure PowerShell

Managing Abandoned M365 Groups

November 30, 2022November 30, 2022Vince

If you’re using Azure, Teams, SharePoint, Yammer, etc. you’ve probably noticed M365 groups magically appearing in your tenant. They seem to pop up whenever you do anything relating to Microsoft’s…Continue readingManaging Abandoned M365 Groups

PowerShell

PowerShell Remoting Results in Errorcode 0x80090322

June 11, 2021June 11, 2021Vince

In a domain with around 700 servers, there seems to be a very small handful that will simply not allow me to use Enter-PSSession or Invoke-Command despite having domain admin…Continue readingPowerShell Remoting Results in Errorcode 0x80090322

Azure PowerShell

Find Expiring Enterprise Applications and App Registrations

June 10, 2021June 1, 2022Vince

So you have an Azure Tenant loaded with Enterprise Applications and App Registrations. It’d be a shame if they started to expire wouldn’t it? Oh wait, that’s exactly what they…Continue readingFind Expiring Enterprise Applications and App Registrations

Certificates PowerShell

Use PowerShell to Generate Report of Certificates Issued by your Root CA

June 7, 2021December 7, 2022Vince

Some of you may love using certutil.exe, most of you probably don’t. I personally prefer to do things in PowerShell as the data is much easier to manipulate and read.…Continue readingUse PowerShell to Generate Report of Certificates Issued by your Root CA

Active Directory

DCPromo Results in Black Screen on 2019 Domain Controller

September 10, 2020June 7, 2021Vince

I ran into a rather bizarre issue recently. I’m currently in the process of replacing our existing 2012 R2 Domain Controllers with 2019 Domain Controllers. We have two domains in…Continue readingDCPromo Results in Black Screen on 2019 Domain Controller

Azure Conditional Access

You Can’t Get There From Here

March 22, 2019June 8, 2021Vince

This is a problem that’s been rearing it’s head at my workplace. A user on a Windows 10 workstation tries to visit a web page that has conditional access policies…Continue readingYou Can’t Get There From Here

Print Server

Delegate Print Server Printer Permissions with PowerShell

December 12, 2018June 8, 2021Vince

The company I work for has about 100 remote locations, each having its own local server. These local servers act as a print server for that particular remote site. The…Continue readingDelegate Print Server Printer Permissions with PowerShell

Scripting

Bat files won’t run and instantly close!

December 7, 2018June 7, 2021Vince

I ran into this issue this past weekend while doing some planned work. I wrote some very simple bat files that had a lot of repetitive tasks in them that…Continue readingBat files won’t run and instantly close!

Active Directory

Accounts in Active Directory aren’t Inheriting Permissions

April 15, 2018June 7, 2021Vince

Various accounts in my Active Directory environment didn’t seem to want to inherit permissions correctly. This was causing issues with Azure AD Connect and other various homebrew processes that were…Continue readingAccounts in Active Directory aren’t Inheriting Permissions

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